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Offline FlyinCedar

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Need Help With Bow for Bear
« on: May 20, 2005, 10:45:00 PM »
This year I will be hunting bear in Northeast Pennsylvania. The season is only 3 days long, and I want to be sure to have the right equipment to make a clean kill, if I do get a chance. I want to buy a new bow (or used...new for me). Any suggestions? Also, any help with arrows and broadheads will be helpful. I have never hunted bear before. Thank You.
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Offline Joseph

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Re: Need Help With Bow for Bear
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2005, 03:48:00 AM »
I would use the same setup you use for hunting at home.  If you hunt whitetails it will work for bear just fine.  Joseph
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Offline FlyinCedar

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Re: Need Help With Bow for Bear
« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2005, 10:52:00 AM »
Ok..Thanx...wasn't sure if I needed anything special or not.
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Re: Need Help With Bow for Bear
« Reply #3 on: May 25, 2005, 09:41:00 PM »
I plain on using a 54" shrew 51#@26"(My draw) Easton 2016's @ 27" topped with Magnus II 125gr 2-blade A.K.A. Nugentblade.
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Offline FlyinCedar

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Re: Need Help With Bow for Bear
« Reply #4 on: May 29, 2005, 12:18:00 PM »
I have decided to go ahead and make a bamboo backed hickory for this hunt. Thanx for the info.
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Offline StanM

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Re: Need Help With Bow for Bear
« Reply #5 on: June 01, 2005, 05:57:00 PM »
FC,

That is some really good advice from Tom.  I shot a couple of bear in the shoulder blade before I really knew where to hit them.  Both times I thought I'd made a good shot, and it would've been on a deer.  Shot placement is key.

Stan
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Offline Aramil

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Re: Need Help With Bow for Bear
« Reply #6 on: June 20, 2005, 02:03:00 PM »
Oh, i can say good luck for you with the bear. Because the most important, is shot in the best place of the animal. If you are a good archer, equipament is not the most important thing. The most important, is you.
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Re: Need Help With Bow for Bear
« Reply #7 on: June 20, 2005, 10:55:00 PM »
As it turns out, I won't be hunting bear after all....the other members on the lease I have are going to get together with rifles and drive the property all three days of the PA bear season....not a total loss though, as my boo backed hickory is coming along nicely.
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Re: Need Help With Bow for Bear
« Reply #8 on: July 08, 2005, 09:12:00 AM »
If there is going to be a drive, I would set-up and let the drivers send the bears to you.
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